RE: transcendental
Erin McLaughlin (erinseyes@hotmail.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
It's just the divine being part I don't buy.
As for religion, it's those religions that insist on the existence of
divine beings that I'm not interested in. If you're talking about
religion as any sort of passion, be it for writing, software
development, or kinky sex, then sure, everyone's got to be passionate
about something, or life's gets kind of boring. I guess we're all
religious in this sense.
-Sean
Well, as much as I appreciate your consideration of my last post on this
whole religion issue, I feel a little...misread, I guess. I don't think
the Buddy Glass-"Writer" had as much to do with solely PASSION, as you
think. I mean, your interpretation is as fair as mine, I know, but that
wasn't how I read it. See, I thought that it was the belief part, the
faith and the compulsion and the need and the self-revelation, and the
truth and the humility and the spirit and the sacrifice and the HIM that
he put into his writing that made it a religious experience. I wouldn't
put it in the same category with "kinky sex," although (understandably)
you might. What I'm saying is, I don't think it had a damn thing to do
with being bored otherwise.
I don't know. This discussion will never end so let's just call it even.
You don't buy divinity, you said. And you're right. You can't.
Erin
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." --H.D. Thoreau
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